I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
John Callahan wrote:
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
I haven't done this before but you may be able to create a view with an argument form the URL, such as maybe the node ID or though parsing the path for terms. A different way could be to use CCK node reference from your pages to ad nodes which would be displayed as teasers in a block somehow. Each page may have a set of ads that go with it. Since I've never done these, maybe someone can tell you if they're even possible!
The more I think about it, to guarantee a certain number of views per ad, custom code is probably necessary.
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
John Callahan wrote:
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
Hi Christopher - we handle lots of ads on our websites and Views would not be the way to go for the critical ads - you only have the random feature which is not something that provides any guarantees in fairness across the same day, etc.
I also don't know to which extend it is worth creating a view of banners and then rotating them - views is really best suited for results that can be cached to a certain extend - especially on sites that are visited often.
Given that code is needed the best at this point is probably a custom module that resolves your specific problem.
Just out of curiosity why do you want to stop using the Advertisement module?
Ronald
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
John Callahan wrote:
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
Ok, all points well taken. Since you handle lots of ads, maybe you can give me some advice for how else to proceed. We have a directory of service providers on our site. The provider record is a cck type with geocoded address. The results are displayed using Views, using the gmap proximity search.
Now they want to sell ads by location, so that providers' ads are displayed on searches that return results within a certain proximity of them.
I thought this might be doable by building the ad block as a View with a proximity argument, same as the actual search results. Thus my interest in views for this task.
I thought to chuck Advertisement for two reasons: first, I can't see a way to do the above with it, though it does have geoip. Maybe I should just convince the client to do things that way, instead. But aside from that, we're having problems with the flash_ad module, which doesn't seem to track clicks properly. I've read the big thread on that topic (reference escapes me) but I just haven't had a chance to try out all the patches and combinations of patches that are mentioned there. The sum of shortcomings seemed to suggest to me that we wanted to look elsewhere.
Any suggestions?
Ronald Ashri wrote:
Hi Christopher - we handle lots of ads on our websites and Views would not be the way to go for the critical ads - you only have the random feature which is not something that provides any guarantees in fairness across the same day, etc.
I also don't know to which extend it is worth creating a view of banners and then rotating them - views is really best suited for results that can be cached to a certain extend - especially on sites that are visited often.
Given that code is needed the best at this point is probably a custom module that resolves your specific problem.
Just out of curiosity why do you want to stop using the Advertisement module?
Ronald
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
John Callahan wrote:
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
Have you tried Openx? http://drupal.org/project/openx (for D6 only).
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Ok, all points well taken. Since you handle lots of ads, maybe you can give me some advice for how else to proceed. We have a directory of service providers on our site. The provider record is a cck type with geocoded address. The results are displayed using Views, using the gmap proximity search.
Now they want to sell ads by location, so that providers' ads are displayed on searches that return results within a certain proximity of them.
I thought this might be doable by building the ad block as a View with a proximity argument, same as the actual search results. Thus my interest in views for this task.
I thought to chuck Advertisement for two reasons: first, I can't see a way to do the above with it, though it does have geoip. Maybe I should just convince the client to do things that way, instead. But aside from that, we're having problems with the flash_ad module, which doesn't seem to track clicks properly. I've read the big thread on that topic (reference escapes me) but I just haven't had a chance to try out all the patches and combinations of patches that are mentioned there. The sum of shortcomings seemed to suggest to me that we wanted to look elsewhere.
Any suggestions?
Ronald Ashri wrote:
Hi Christopher - we handle lots of ads on our websites and Views would not be the way to go for the critical ads - you only have the random feature which is not something that provides any guarantees in fairness across the same day, etc.
I also don't know to which extend it is worth creating a view of banners and then rotating them - views is really best suited for results that can be cached to a certain extend - especially on sites that are visited often.
Given that code is needed the best at this point is probably a custom module that resolves your specific problem.
Just out of curiosity why do you want to stop using the Advertisement module?
Ronald
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
John Callahan wrote:
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
No, stuck with D5 for now.
Bob Morse wrote:
Have you tried Openx? http://drupal.org/project/openx (for D6 only).
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Ok, all points well taken. Since you handle lots of ads, maybe you can give me some advice for how else to proceed. We have a directory of service providers on our site. The provider record is a cck type with geocoded address. The results are displayed using Views, using the gmap proximity search.
Now they want to sell ads by location, so that providers' ads are displayed on searches that return results within a certain proximity of them.
I thought this might be doable by building the ad block as a View with a proximity argument, same as the actual search results. Thus my interest in views for this task.
I thought to chuck Advertisement for two reasons: first, I can't see a way to do the above with it, though it does have geoip. Maybe I should just convince the client to do things that way, instead. But aside from that, we're having problems with the flash_ad module, which doesn't seem to track clicks properly. I've read the big thread on that topic (reference escapes me) but I just haven't had a chance to try out all the patches and combinations of patches that are mentioned there. The sum of shortcomings seemed to suggest to me that we wanted to look elsewhere.
Any suggestions?
Ronald Ashri wrote:
Hi Christopher - we handle lots of ads on our websites and Views would not be the way to go for the critical ads - you only have the random feature which is not something that provides any guarantees in fairness across the same day, etc.
I also don't know to which extend it is worth creating a view of banners and then rotating them - views is really best suited for results that can be cached to a certain extend - especially on sites that are visited often.
Given that code is needed the best at this point is probably a custom module that resolves your specific problem.
Just out of curiosity why do you want to stop using the Advertisement module?
Ronald
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
John Callahan wrote:
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same page via jquery.
What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
Hi Bob,
using D5 does not exclude using OpenX - OpenX is an open source ad platform. You can use that to serve your banners and the integration with Drupal is simply a question of inserting the javascript code in the right place. We use Google Ad Manager so as to save on having to handle ads on our own server.
However, based on your description you actually need views so as to decide which banner to display and something like OpenX or Google Ad Manager would add another system to handle and to keep in synx with your website - instead you could create a module that:
1. instantiates the view in code that sorts nodes based on the proximity filter and a ad_display_counter value (an extra - hidden to users - CCK field) 2. displays the view in the block 3. The nodes that got displayed get their ad_display_counter field updated 4. Next time round the nodes with lower counter values will be the chosen ones
This is a relatively simple module and will handle the job - it's not as simple as a module that already does the job but it beats having to code a module from scratch you can still reuse the views functionality.
Hope this helps,
Ronald
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
No, stuck with D5 for now.
Bob Morse wrote:
Have you tried Openx? http://drupal.org/project/openx (for D6 only).
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Ok, all points well taken. Since you handle lots of ads, maybe you can give me some advice for how else to proceed. We have a directory of service providers on our site. The provider record is a cck type with geocoded address. The results are displayed using Views, using the gmap proximity search.
Now they want to sell ads by location, so that providers' ads are displayed on searches that return results within a certain proximity of them.
I thought this might be doable by building the ad block as a View with a proximity argument, same as the actual search results. Thus my interest in views for this task.
I thought to chuck Advertisement for two reasons: first, I can't see a way to do the above with it, though it does have geoip. Maybe I should just convince the client to do things that way, instead. But aside from that, we're having problems with the flash_ad module, which doesn't seem to track clicks properly. I've read the big thread on that topic (reference escapes me) but I just haven't had a chance to try out all the patches and combinations of patches that are mentioned there. The sum of shortcomings seemed to suggest to me that we wanted to look elsewhere.
Any suggestions?
Ronald Ashri wrote:
Hi Christopher - we handle lots of ads on our websites and Views would not be the way to go for the critical ads - you only have the random feature which is not something that provides any guarantees in fairness across the same day, etc.
I also don't know to which extend it is worth creating a view of banners and then rotating them - views is really best suited for results that can be cached to a certain extend - especially on sites that are visited often.
Given that code is needed the best at this point is probably a custom module that resolves your specific problem.
Just out of curiosity why do you want to stop using the Advertisement module?
Ronald
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
John Callahan wrote:
Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
- John
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it > doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate > for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same > page via jquery. > > What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views > and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a > page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented > offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can > write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done. > Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x? > > > >
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